Remote Senior Data Engineer @ League

League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. Payers, providers, consumer health partners and employers build on League’s platform to deliver high-engagement, personalized healthcare experiences consumers love. Millions of people use solutions powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care.

Why join League

• Make an impact – Your work will directly improve the health outcomes of millions of lives
• Cutting-edge Technology: Work with sophisticated tech stack: Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Composer, Terraform, etc
• Inclusive culture: Be part of a globally distributed team working collaboratively
• Work flexibility: Flexibility to work from our Toronto HQ office or fully remote (within Canada only)

Team Mandate

The Data Platform team is a small and mighty senior team that owns 5 major functional areas:

• Batch Pipelines / Data Visualization – 40%
• Real-Time Data Streaming – 10%
• Software Development – 20%
• MLOps – 10%
• Terraform Deployments – 20%

While everyone has their area of preference & expertise, the team tries to be as cross-functional as possible to be able to support each area, with the exception of MLOps which is very specialized. This role is for mainly batch pipelines and terraform, but will also extend to the other categories as needed. Data Platform is one of 3 data specific teams: with the Data Science team & Customer Data Team. The Data Platform team works with many different other teams as well. We’re very collaborative at League as we’re often faced with problems that we don’t necessarily know the answer for. We value critical thinking, discussion, learning and transparency over the “right” textbook skillset for the role. That being said, the range of skills we’re looking for is very wide and we can compromise as long as the candidate is transparent and open to learning.

About You

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will build personalized & data driven healthcare data products and pipelines that power our Powered by League platform and provide valuable insights on its performance. You will help architect, improve on and support a highly available, secure and governed data platform. In this role, you will work as part of a small multi-disciplinary team to establish and evangelize a data driven culture. This team will not only work with the product team closely but will also support non-engineering functions like Marketing and Business Strategy. To thrive in this role, you are someone who works well in cross-functional teams and enjoys collaborating. Furthermore, you understand the business impact of your work and enjoy measuring and presenting it. You enjoy working with product management and other stakeholders to find the best solution to the problem at hand, iterate over it and can balance technical complexity with delivering customer value. Our platform and applications run on Google Cloud. You will be working on building infrastructure for real-time and batch pipelines to ingest and transform data from a variety of sources. You will have an opportunity to experiment with new frameworks and paradigms, and freedom to put cutting-edge tech in production to shape the future of digital health!

What You Will Do:

• Be a subject matter expert in League’s task orchestration infrastructure (Airflow/Cloud Composer), which supports many products
• Utilize a variety of distributed computing platforms and tools to build scalable & customer facing data pipelines
• Drive architectural choices and data platform tools
• Translate business needs into data and analytics requirements, with attention to detail
• Be part of an on-call rotation to analyze, tune, troubleshoot and support League’s data infrastructure ensuring the performance, integrity, and security of data
• Use sound agile development practices (testing and code reviewing, etc.) to develop and deliver data products
• Guide and mentor data engineers

What You Bring:

• Minimum 5 years experience in data engineering
• Ability to articulate tradeoffs of technical decisions and influence stakeholders
• Ability to weigh in on roadmap and articulate opinion on areas of investment for the team
• Experience in a cloud Data Stack  – preferably GCP
• Experience in coding in python and SQL
• Experience in orchestration tools like Airflow
• Experience in managing CICD & Cloud Infrastructure through Terraform, Github Actions, etc
• Experience in developing real time and batch pipelines
• Experience in implementing deployments, error handling and monitoring for scalable pipelines
• Experience in performing root cause analysis of production issues, performance tuning and optimization
• Experience in supporting reporting tools as a platform eg- Looker, Tableau
• Experience in data modeling, data governance and data discovery tools

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in software development, for serverless infrastructure
• Experience in healthcare datasets like EMR and Claims and interoperability standards like FHIR.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive Health Benefits: We prioritize your well-being with complete medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Bonus Program: Be rewarded for your contributions with our performance-based bonus program
• Employee Stock Option Program: Become an owner and share in our success through our stock option program
• Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Spending Accounts: Manage your healthcare and dependent care expenses with tax-advantaged spending accounts
• Wellness Days: Prioritize your mental and physical health with dedicated wellness days throughout the year
• Growth Opportunities: We invest in your future with abundant opportunities for professional development and advancement
• Mentorship Program: Benefit from guidance and support from experienced leaders in your field
• Flexible Ways of Working: Enjoy the freedom to work in a way that suits your life and boosts your productivity

The Application Process:

We believe applying for a job should be straightforward and transparent. Here’s what to expect:

1. Submit Your Application: You’ll receive a confirmation email right away
2. Hiring Manager Chat: Meet the hiring manager straight away to discuss your technical experience
3. Talent screen: Learn more about our culture, get alignment on your compensation expectation prior to committing to next steps
4. Technical Interviews: Dive into SQL and architecture-focused discussions and learn how you can make an impact at League.
5. Final Step: Meet our senior leader to discuss our mission and vision
6. Offer and onboarding!

We value your time and effort—our team is committed to providing updates throughout the process.

Security-related Responsibilities:

• Compliance with Information Security Policies
• Compliance with League’s secure coding practice
• Responsibility and accountability for executing League’s policies and procedures
• Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations

CANADA APPLICANTS ONLY: The Canada-specific compensation range below for this full-time position is exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for base salaries for the position across all Canadian locations. Where in the band you may land is determined by job-related skills/experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range specific to your skills and experience during the hiring process. Compensation range for Canada applicants only $120,900 – $181,300 CAD Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at League and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.

Our Application Process:

Applying to a role you love can be exhausting, and understanding the next steps can feel vague and uncertain. You have done the hard part of submitting your application; let’s do ours by sharing potential next steps

• You should receive a confirmation email after submitting your application.
• A recruiter (not a computer) reviews all applications at League.
• If we see alignment with League’s needs, a recruiter will reach out to learn more about your goals. The recruiter will also share the team-specific interview process depending on the roles you are exploring.
• The final step is an offer, which we hope you will accept!
• Prior to joining us, we conduct reference and background checks. Additional checks could be required for US Candidates, depending on the role you are exploring.